Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has stated Saturday’s by-election outcomes confirmed that the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) now not have a presence within the state.
Speaking on Sunday, August 17, at a gathering in Nanka to have a good time the All Progressives Grand Alliance’s (APGA) efficiency, the governor dismissed each events as irrelevant.
“ADC does not exist in Anambra. We showed it yesterday. Labour Party is dead,” Soludo declared to a cheering crowd of APGA supporters, many wearing outfits bearing the social gathering’s cock emblem.
Soludo additionally aimed a dig at his predecessor, Peter Obi, who had overtly supported ADC candidates.
He argued that the coalition opposition tried to make use of the by-elections to gauge its affect, however the outcomes spoke clearly.
“The people spoke overwhelmingly with over 75%. APGA is our movement,” he stated.
Obi, who contested the 2023 presidential election underneath the Labour Party, has aligned himself with the ADC coalition as a part of preparations to problem President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Soludo, nevertheless, has constantly opposed Obi’s ambitions.
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During Saturday’s elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) introduced APGA’s Emmanuel Nwachukwu as winner of the Anambra South Senatorial District seat.
Nwachukwu polled 90,408 votes, defeating the APC’s Azuka Okwuosa with 19,847 votes and ADC’s Donald Amangbo with 2,889 votes.
He will now take over the seat left vacant following the dying of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah in July 2024.
In one other consequence, APGA’s Ifeoma Azikiwe received the Onitsha North Constituency 1 seat within the State House of Assembly.
Soludo identified that the Onitsha North seat carried additional weight, saying it was Obi’s personal constituency. “That’s his state constituency; he lives in Onitsha,” he famous.
According to him, key figures throughout opposition ranks threw their weight behind the ADC within the by-election, together with senators and members of the House of Representatives, however had been rejected on the polls.
“They wanted to use it as a test case for the new concoction called ADC in Anambra, but that election was won by APGA; we won with about 77%, a very emphatic statement. The signal we sent was that both ADC and Labour Party are dead in Anambra,” Soludo stated.
